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Writing social history /

Sarkar, Sumit, 1939-

Writing social history / Sumit Sarkar. - Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 [impression2011]. - x, 390 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. The Many Worlds of Indian History -- 2. The Relevance of E. P. Thompson -- 3. The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies -- 4. Edward Thompson and India: The Other Side of the Medal -- 5. The City Imagined: Calcutta of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 6. Renaissance and Kaliyuga: Time, Myth and History in Colonial Bengal -- 7. Vidyasagar and Brahmanical Society -- 8. Kaliyuga, Chakri and Bhakti: Ramakrishna and His Times -- 9. Identity and Difference: Caste in the Formation of the Ideologies of Nationalism and Hindutva.

On India; essays, most written between 1991 and 1996.

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India--Historiography.
India--History--19th century.
India--History--20th century.
India--Social conditions.

954.0072 / SAW 2011